Collection-calendar.



E. 0. PETERSON.

COLLECTION CALENDAR.

(iqmplication filed Dec. 11 1901.\

Patented July 29, 1902.:

.(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWINO. PETERSON, OF ELGIN, NEBRASKA.

COLLECTION-CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,607, dated July 29, 1902. Application filed December 11, 190 1. Serial No. 85,496. (No model.) i

braska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collection-Calendars and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

It is customary in assemblies, meetings, and congregations, especially fordivine worship and instruction, for collection to be taken up; and it is the object of this invention to increase the contributions and to remind members in the intervals between meetings of the collection fund, so that spare change may be laid aside, and to provide a receptacle into which the money may be deposited, said re ceptacle being adapted to be sealed and marked, if desired, and placed in the contribution box orcontrivance used for collection.

In its specific construction the invention embodies a connected pile of envelops, pockets, or like receptacles printed or inscribed to indicate the month, date, and days of the Week, an envelop being provided for a determinate period, as one week, and the sealingfiap being arranged so as not to obstruct the opening by which access is had to the interior of the envelop.

For a full description of the invention and merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached. 7

While the essential and characteristicfeatures of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an envelop. Fig. 3 is a rear view of an envelop.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In its organization the calendar comprises a base 1, which may be a card or like support for the reception of printed matter and pictorial representation of any scene or design. A pile of envelops, pockets, or receptacles of kindred nature is secured to the base 1, the envelops being bound together in such a mannor as to admit of each one being readily detached without disturbing the rest, this being essential within the spirit of the invention.

The envelops 2 are connected at their edges in the usual manner of securing sheets in the formation of tablets or may be bound either by a tissue, gelatin, or other material applied to their edges. The base 1 forms a support for the pile of envelops and is constructed to be suspended from a nail or peg in any conspicuous place, so as to frequently remind one of the object of the device. There may be as many envelops as desired in the pile, one being provided for each collection. Inasmuch as the collections occur chiefly on the Sabbath day there will bean envelop for each week, or fifty-two in all, and for convenience the envelops are arranged in two piles of twenty-sixeach. Each envelop has the name of the month at the top, the day of the week along the left-hand edge, and the days of the mouth along the right-hand edge, and at the bottom a suitable scriptural quotation appears. Upon the back of the envelop is a space for the name of the contributor and a space for the amount inclosed, each space being properly designated. The frontpf each envelop extends the full width and length of the envelop, so as to receive the matter inscribedthereon, and the sealing-flap 3 is folded so as not to obstruct the matter inscribed upon the front or to interfere with the opening by means of which coin or other money is adapted to be deposited into the en velop.

From the foregoing it will be observed that the invention, besides being a reminder of the next collection, provides a means for receiving any money which may beconveniently spared, as Well as furnishing a means for indicating the month, date, and day of the week. At the end of the week the outermost envelop is detached, and the contribution is prevented from coming out by folding the sealing-flap 3 over the front and securing it in the usual manner, and, if desired, the name and amount may be indorsed on the back of the envelop and the latter deposited name of the month, the days of the week and in the collection device on the Sabbath or the numerals corresponding to the days of other time. the month, each envelop being adapted to be I 5 Having thus described the invention, what detached and to have its contents sealed, sub- 5 is claimed as new is stantially as set forth.

A collection-calendar as an improved ar- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature ticle of manufacture, the same consisting of in presence of two witnesses. v

a base or card suitably inscribed a pile of envelops or like receptacles bound together-and PETERSON 10 attached to said base and having their open Witnesses:

ends uppermost and unobstructed, the en- WM. H. CAMPBELL, velops bearing upon their front sides the JULIUS BROTHER. 

